his brother, Aleksandar, in which he implicated Alain Delon and François Marcantoni as guilty if any harm came to him. Marcantoni was initially charged with the murder. However, after he was questioned by the police, the charges were eventually dropped, and the crime remains unsolved. Involvement of Pompidous The death of Marković provoked many rumours, many suggesting the existence of group sex photos with Madame Pompidou. Georges Pompidou was then conducting his presidential campaign and wanted to dispel them as soon as possible. He formally told the public that the talk concerning the Marković affair was all rumors. While admitting that he and his wife had attended parties with Marković and Delon, Pompidou accused Louis Wallon and Henri Capitant of using the French espionage service SDECE to frame him. Some alleged that Pompidou ordered Marković's murder in revenge for the supposed photos of his wife. Even though he claimed the woman in the photos was a prostitute who simply resembled his wife, the rumors initially hurt Pompidou's campaign. After he nevertheless overcame the rumors and won the 1969 election, Pompidou appointed Alexandre de Marenches as the chief of the SDECE with instructions to reform it. According to some, the Marković affair was merely a ploy to damage Georges Pompidou's reputation by attacking the public image of his wife. Later, information proved that it was not Madame Pompidou in the photos but a prostitute who had been paid by a former police chief, Lucien Aimé-Blanc, with long connections to the SDECE. Aimé-Blanc claimed in his memoirs that an anonymous friend asked him to recruit a blonde-haired prostitute in her forties and who was then used as Madame Pompidou's lookalike so she could be photographed in compromising positions with another woman. Aftermath wrote Les Mystères Delon, a book about Alain Delon, published in 2000. It was the first book in French legal history to have been banned by authorities before it was officially allowed to be sold, allegedly because Delon, one of the few surviving persons associated with the affair, sought to block its sale. However, the ban was eventually lifted, and the book was sold in France. References Political scandals in France 1968 in France Organized crime events in France 20th-century scandals Unsolved murders in France Alain Delon